TaborTalk Blog

At Tabor Academy, we are blessed with strong athletic programs which often attract athletes who wish to eventually compete at the collegiate level. These athletes come in all shapes and sizes and encompass everything from field hockey and crew to wrestling and football. In this blog, I want to discuss the cases of three Tabor athletes from recent years who had different experiences as they made the transition from high school to college.

^{Enjoy this story about Emma’s trip to the U.K. to perform a show called “Lucky Me” with her fellow Tabor cast members.}

There is something so special about getting the chance to travel with your friends, especially when you get the opportunity to go to the U.K. for a week to perform a show that you wrote with an amazing cast.

This past summer I was chosen to be SSV Tabor Boy’s Executive Officer (XO), the highest student position on board the school’s 92’ schooner, a 105-year old classic tall ship.

“Hey, Leah, what are you doing in the spring?” A simple enough question, asked by my English teacher in early February of my sophomore year, ended up changing everything I’d grown to expect from my Tabor career.

^{Orlando, Florida
March 18 - 22, 2019}

^{By Coach Jay Houck}

Day 1--Tuesday.    With rain threatening a "deluge" for the entire overnight period prior to this round at an empty Champions Gate Country Club, we were fortunate enough to make it through all 18 holes with minor, spotty rain.

Day 1-Thursday, March 14, 2019

We are tired! We left Marion this morning at 5:00am and it is now 10:00pm. In between those two times, we all made our flights, we lost a bat along the way, but was retrieved and handed to us just as we were pulling out of Orlando Int'l Airport. We drove for 30 minutes, stopped at Chipotle/Chik-Fil-A and had lunch, drove the remaining hour, arrived at 3:00pm, checked into our rooms, practiced at 4:00pm, had boxed dinners and changed into our game uniforms at 6:00pm, played our first game at 7:00pm in Holman Stadium vs. Loomis Chaffee School, returned to our rooms at 9:30pm, greeted by Mr. Heaslip with 10 pizzas...

The boys and girls lacrosse teams headed to the Sunshine State to get in some spring training before the opening of the season. Below are blog entries from the head coaches, Ian Patrick '84 and RJ Swift '08.

Recently Rick DaSilva ’89, Associate Director of the Center for International Students, along with faculty Wes and MacKenzie Chaput, Kelly and Nate Meleo ’95, and Bert Nascimento traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark with Tabor juniors and seniors for a week of home stays, site seeing, and classroom learning at Rysensteen Gymnasium.

Each day Rick prompted the students with questions about their visit to Denmark and here are some of their thoughts:

Two groups of students will spend their March break in San Salvador, Bahamas, snorkeling and enjoying the warm waters and sunshine, and working very hard! They are creating Tabor Academy’s first coral reef nursery. This year’s REEF trip will catalog the species of coral in the area, do some genetic testing to find disease-resistant species, and then take fragments from these healthy corals to grow in our nursery on PVC “trees” anchored to the seabed. When we return next year, we will hope to “plant” these more mature corals in the seabed, rebuilding an area of damaged reef.

Once upon a time in the middle of Iowa’s cornfields, a young woman in her senior year at Grinnell College accepted the position of Senior Admission Fellow in the Office of Admission

After school on Friday February 8th, Tabor’s Model UN team piled into a Tabor van and headed to MIT to take part in their 11th annual MUN conference. Tabor students debated in several of the committees including the European Union, Special Political and Decolonization Committee (SPECPOL), and the Joint Crisis Historical Committee (JCC) over this three-day conference.

This year, during the month of April, Tabor will once again partake in an exchange with Ellesmere College in England, as actors from this year’s fall drama head over the Atlantic over spring break to tour with our show, Lucky Me, across the United Kingdom.